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Chips for .50/1.00 limit?
I hate to post the boring old questions, but I'm talking about a ring-game, not a tournament, so I hope the helpful people on Home Games will indulge me.
I'm trying to start a new .50/1.00 limit game, and I need new chips. (Wish I could afford the Egyptians/Pharaoh's Club!, but for now I'm going with the 4Star fake clays...). I plan on getting 600 chips for an 8 player game which should be more than enough. I figured I need three colors for .25/.50/1.00, and I thought I'd try to have some relationship between my chips and casino chips. So I was thinking that to keep the hierarchy straight, I'd get red for .25, green for .50 and black for 1.00. Or should I try to keep the multiples closer to the "real" thing and thus have green as .25, black as 1.00, and something else for .50? Once I figure out the colors, I think the distribution is relatively easy: although the common wisdom is to get more than half of the lowest denomination, I've found that people love the middle chip. The last chip set I bought had four colors and frankly we never use the white chips (lowest denomination) anymore. So I'd get 300 of the middle (.50), 200 of the low (.25), 100 of the high (1). Or should I get 100 low (SB) and 200 high (big bet)? What do you think? What colors? What distribution? |
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Re: Chips for .50/1.00 limit?
I think you should go 50 white (.25) 300 red (.50) and 250 for the 1.00 ... not sure about the color for the 1.00... I think i'd go with blue or black. Blue would be more correct I think, but black would be cooler.
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Re: Chips for .50/1.00 limit?
I'd go with a more versatile and expandable breakdown in case you get a bigger game going in the future. This is what I'd dp (and what I have tentatively planned for my own set)
0.25 (white) 100 0.50 (yellow?) 200 1.00 (blue) 250 5.00 (red) 50 |
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Re: Chips for .50/1.00 limit?
if you want to be casino-esque, just do two colors. grey for your .25 chip, and blue or white for the $1. you don't need a quarter and a .50.
if you want to add a third color, do reds for $5s (for rebuys and stuff.) .25: 250 $1: 300 $5: 50 |
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Re: Chips for .50/1.00 limit?
I agree with jojobinks above, spot on. It's the most versitile set up. At those limits a .50 chip doesn't really do anything for you.
The quantity break down seems perfect too. |
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Re: Chips for .50/1.00 limit?
Get 2,000 of the green 9.5g chips from 5stardeal.com. It'll run you about $125. Make each chip worth a quarter and use only them.
You'll have $500 worth in chips which is a huge amount relative to the big bet. |
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Re: Chips for .50/1.00 limit?
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Get 2,000 of the green 9.5g chips from 5stardeal.com. It'll run you about $125. Make each chip worth a quarter and use only them. You'll have $500 worth in chips which is a huge amount relative to the big bet. [/ QUOTE ] getting the faux clay from 5star is good advice. getting 2k of the same color is very very bad advice. if you're going to go cheap, definitely go faux clay, but then take some time to figure out a breakdown that's flex and makes sense. |
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Re: Chips for .50/1.00 limit?
Besides, if you get several different colors, you can always go back and say "all chips are 0.25" regardless of the color, which gets you to the same place.
Why you'd want to do this I don't know, but since it doesn't cost extra to have different colors, I can't see a reason not to. |
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Re: Chips for .50/1.00 limit?
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getting 2k of the same color is very very bad advice. [/ QUOTE ] I like the concept of buying tons of a single low-denomination chip. I set up my nice chips to be flexible -- .50/1.00 through about 5/10. It turns out that one of the groups I play with is uncomfortable even at the .50/1.00 level, so I decided to put together a nano-limit set. I thought about it and decided that instead of getting three or four different colors, I'd just buy a big bag (1000-2000) of one color and use those for nickels. I think -- especially for very inexperienced "social" players -- that it's a lot more fun to have giant stacks of chips in front of you, and take down giant pots, even if those stacks and pots aren't worth very much in terms of real dollars. jafager |
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Re: Chips for .50/1.00 limit?
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] getting 2k of the same color is very very bad advice. [/ QUOTE ] I like the concept of buying tons of a single low-denomination chip. I set up my nice chips to be flexible -- .50/1.00 through about 5/10. It turns out that one of the groups I play with is uncomfortable even at the .50/1.00 level, so I decided to put together a nano-limit set. I thought about it and decided that instead of getting three or four different colors, I'd just buy a big bag (1000-2000) of one color and use those for nickels. I think -- especially for very inexperienced "social" players -- that it's a lot more fun to have giant stacks of chips in front of you, and take down giant pots, even if those stacks and pots aren't worth very much in terms of real dollars. jafager [/ QUOTE ] That's exactly why I suggested it. I have a standard set of 500 dice chips -- 150 white, 150 red, 100 green, 50 black, 50 blue. It's kind of silly. Blinds are .25/.50, or one green and two green. If you buy in for $20, you get 12 green (.25 each, or $3), 12 white ($1 each), and a red ($5). 25 chips is _nothing_, and it takes a lot away from the fun of the game. Even when we are lucky to be 10-handed, that is a mere 250 chips. (Actually, it is fewer, because I don't have enough green chips for ten people.) When you sit down at, say, a 2/4, and buy in for 25 BB, you're getting 100 chips. When you sit down at a .5/1, you should get the same proportion, and if you can do that for a home game, you should. |
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